Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Far from it - a complex web of other changes are also needed to build a more sustainable food system, including more efficient transport, regenerative farming methods and the development of more climate resilient crops. Yet the solutions to this growing problem need not rely solely on encouraging changes to human diets.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon South America Retail 76

Terra Infirma

JUNE 19, 2023

No one wants to confirm it’s Africa, Asia & South America that’s the real problem! I got this classic response: Still no credible expert stating the obvious that over population & deforestation is the cause. Not UK emissions or UK use of fossil fuels! In fact they can get quite angry when you suggest this.”

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Climate change Fossil fuels South America Carbon 45

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The study reveals that the regions contributing the most to global N2O emissions are East Asia, South Asia, Africa and South America, with emissions from synthetic fertilisers dominating releases in China, India and the US and emissions from the application of livestock manure dominating in Africa and South Africa.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

All the companies are members of the Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD) group, which aims to make palm oil supply chains more environmentally and socially responsible and conducts an annual investigation to map risks in its members' supply chains. We're proud to launch the ASD Impact Fund.

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South America Asia Biodiversity Sustainability 69

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We In the Asia-Pacific region, the company now has a total of 57 renewable energy projects.

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South America North America Asia Investment 36

ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Through this official commitment, GNS and MBC are combining their complementary expertise to support international partners in pursuing efficient and sustainable solutions in geothermal energy development. The agreement was announced in Manila before the opening of the 4th Philippine International Geothermal Conference.

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South America Energy Energy Innovation 52

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Australia's 2018-2019 summer was the hottest ever recorded, while heat records were also broken in France, Germany, and the UK, and Siberia and Alaska saw unusually high levels of fire activity, along with large parts of South East Asia and South America.

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Climate change South America Global warming Asia 76

Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Green groups have today sought to raise the alarm over how soaring global demand for soy is fuelling deforestation and rising greenhouse gas emissions, with leading companies accused of failing to adequately deliver on sustainable supply chain pledges and crackdown on suppliers linked to forest clearances.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The supermarket giant has committed to achieving a 300 per cent increase in sales of meat alternative products by 2025 compared to 2018, backed by a host of wider sustainability measures it has developed in partnership with environmental charity WWF. They need to know where they are starting from in order to know where they are going.".

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Meat alternatives Retail South America Sustainability 99

Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The announcement, led by 40 members of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), marks the biggest global net zero commitment from the carbon-intensive sector to date, and brings together firms from North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 95

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Water shortages and a decline in pollinators will affect agricultural production levels, trade, and food prices across Eastern and Western Africa, central Asia and parts of South America, the study predicts. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Biodiversity Agriculture South America COP 88

Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

The people behind the innovative efforts are imagining a new economy – one that has a vision for sustainable, equitable, and healthy communities. Asia Tail is the fellow and cofounder of the Y?haw? Five Frontline Community Fellowship projects launch this month to showcase the range of possibilities. In 2018, she co-founded y?

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Real Estate Agriculture Asia Organic 96

Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“There is substantial uncertainty as to whether these largely unproven technologies can be deployed as quickly, and at the scale required, and just how sustainable they are,” Price continued. Damon Matthews, a climate scientist at Concordia University stressed that this was a significant assumption that ignores questions about sustainability.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Carbon Natural gas 144

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Also of interest: How the energy industry can take the lead on making the digital world more sustainable The EU Clean Energy Package and the smart grid.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy Energy 52

AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

One Tree partnered with Kula Project to train local farmers in agronomy, technical skills and sustainable practices. Once the coffee Arabica seedlings mature, they should provide a sustainable income for up to three decades. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. .”

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not all of these murders occurred in central and south America many also took place in Asia, most notably in the Philippines and India. One of the truck drivers was also murdered and a second ranger sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Poachers have taken a toll on rangers in Africa.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

Similar creatures live in other rivers of South America and Asia, but they all face threats from humans. Dos Santos works as a guide at Brazil’s Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development. In 2007, China’s Yangtze River dolphin was pronounced extinct due to pollution, habitat degradation and overfishing.

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South America Asia Biodiversity Pollution 28

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

As SIGWATCH data shows (see graph above), while campaigning on meat divestment has a way to go before it reaches the dizzying heights of carbon divestment, it is seeing a sustained increase that correlates with greater attention on industrial agriculture's contribution to climate change and environmental degradation.

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Fossil fuels Agriculture Climate change South America 69

Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The food giant reveals how a simplification of a once sprawling palm oil supply chain has helped the company to ensure it can deliver on its sustainable sourcing pledges. The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO.

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Asia South America Carbon Sustainability 56

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Generally speaking, according to the special working environment of tropical rainforest or dry desert climate in African countries, the requirements for smart water meter will be more strict than in Asia or South America. In summary, the critical aspects of the smart water meters that need to be considered are as follows: 1.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

“Impossible Foods will help fulfill the OSI Group’s commitment to sustainable food production — one of the core prisms through which OSI management makes operational decisions.” said Kevin Scott, Senior Executive Vice President, OSI North America. OSI can source, develop, produce and distribute custom food solutions worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 87

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The organization has also documented efforts by fossil fuel firms to undermine each of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals. Filling in For Governments. Fossil fuel sponsorships are often attempts by companies “to rebuild trust following an accident or opposition,” according to ArtWash author Evans.

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Fossil fuels Education Organic South America 87

Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

BlackRock found that in the first quarter of 2020, during the pandemic, 94 per cent of a set of sustainable funds outperformed their non-sustainable counterparts. And the International Renewable Energy Agency recently found that renewable energy would bring returns of between 3-8 dollars on every dollar invested.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America.

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Global warming Climate change Resilience South America 101

Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The demand for IT products that have been manufactured in a fair and environmentally sustainable way is growing, but many sustainability issues in the IT industry are difficult to solve. The study includes 20 factories in Asia and South America, that have been audited twice during the time period 2015-2018.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Wind power Climate change South America North America 52

T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

By giving institutions the modernized tools and validation they require to deploy capital, T-REX facilitates increased investment allocations into sustainable, decarbonization-related assets. “Over the last several years, not only has the demand for each of these solutions grown, but the needs they address have converged.

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

By giving institutions the modernized tools and validation they require to deploy capital, T-REX facilitates increased investment allocations into sustainable, decarbonization-related assets. “Over the last several years, not only has the demand for each of these solutions grown, but the needs they address have converged.

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Investment Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 52

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Oceania South America Asia North America 36

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. will go down significantly, leading to more economic activity.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk.

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Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 49

Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Thanks to dire warnings from scientists and economists alike, there is growing understanding that nature loss, climate change, and other sustainability priorities, such as social inequalities, need to be tackled together to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), she tells BusinessGreen. There are 1.6

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Politics Agriculture 89

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Moreover, many of the countries and regions best placed to benefit from a green hydrogen future and to become net exporters of the energy source are those most able to generate cheap, abundant renewable electricity, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and South America, according to the report. It will create new jobs.

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